Marty Stamatis

Principal Consultant – Geospatial Data Management

Marty Stamatis is a specialist in geospatial data management. He has 50 years of experience in the collection and management of this information through to its delivery as a product or service.

Marty has a proven track record in building effective partnerships for the acquisition and management of this data. He is highly skilled at designing specifications, policies and guidelines for geospatial data acquisition, developing work programs for data maintenance and conducting training in geospatial methods.

At Landgate, Marty was responsible for the collection, maintenance and management of topographic data. Marty initiated and project managed the Topographic Restructure Project (TRP), which built a seamless Topographic Database for the State, which transformed the existing CAD data into a GIS format.

As part of a separate project, completed in 2010, Marty led a project team to cleanse and improve the quality of the State’s road data. This road data was then included into the Topographic Database.

With a sustainable Topographic Database in place, Marty’s focus shifted to deriving value from the data asset. His vision was to achieve a sustainable data management and map production environment that would provide flexibility to create innovative products to support government and commercial needs into the future. Two additional components to the systems were required. Firstly, the Topographic Database model had to be expanded to include Geographic Points of Interest (POI). Marty was the driving force in defining a model that ensured no redundancy existed with the implementation of POI into the Topographic Database. The second, was a dynamic spatial updating methodology that would provide an automated map production environment that drew on the Topographic Database as its source data to deliver products.

Marty was involved closely with developing sustainable data management across the whole of government. This was a significant challenge. Historically many government agencies had held and maintained duplicate topographic data for their own business needs. Using Landgate’s topographic database and platform as the single source of truth, Marty created an environment that allowed external agencies to maintain their own data within the single centralized environment without loss of flexibility or performance. This provided savings to all of government through elimination of duplicate data, better utilization of resources and provided consistency in outcomes as the same data is now used by all agencies.

Since leaving Landgate, Marty has undertaken geospatial consultancy work, leveraging his vast experience and knowledge gained in the government sector.  He has completed short-term contact with the World Bank to provide Geospatial Data Consultancy on the Can Tho Urban Development and Resilience Project.  He has also undertaken a comprehensive Data Inventory as part of the Main Roads Asset and Geospatial Data Management Plan.

Marty has a wealth of knowledge and experience, is diligent and thorough and will leave no stone unturned in delivering viable, practical and sustainable geospatial solutions.